[Coco] 5 Simple Math Problems No One Can Solve

[James Jones]

The Collatz one I've heard of; the others I hadn't.
Math has a long history of easy to state and understand problems that are
very hard to solve.

As far as brute force searching, people have pushed things like Collatz far
beyond what would be practical with a CoCo. Problems like these require
insights that reduce the problem to one more easily solved, or as in the
case of the four-color problem, to a relatively small number of cases that
a program can check.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 1:21 AM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
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> I received the following link in an email from Popular Mechanics.
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> The article is very interesting.  I have never heard of these 5 math
> problems before.  I wonder if anyone is interested in trying to solve them
> on a Coco.  Takers anyone?  John Mark?
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